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Feeling Triggered?
Feeling triggered lately? Yeah, I thought so. Me too. I don’t blame you. It would be hard not to be triggered with all the fear hanging in the air like a thick layer of pheromones. What’s your poison—your particular trigger?
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Congratulations, New York Democrats! You Sold Us to Merck and F%&^*d Yourselves in the Process
I might as well apologize up front for all the profanity in this blog. You see, I live in New York State, and this past Thursday my state legislators decided they knew best what medical interventions my children—and all other New York children—should receive.
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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been an Antivaxxer?
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 704 cases of measles—divided between 22 states—have been confirmed in the United States since the first of the year. Despite the fact that CDC estimates that in 1962, the year before the licensing of the first (ineffective) measles vaccine, there were three to four million cases of measles in the country and no panic (only about ten percent of cases were even reported), this is being billed as an “emergency” requiring immediate action by various state and local government officials all over the country—most notably perhaps in my own state, New York, where Republican Rockland County Executive Ed Day has twice declared a…
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Rockland County Exec Punishes Jewish Constituents by Ruining Passover
I live in upstate New York, one county away from Rockland County. My children have not been vaccinated since my about-to-be-20-year-old daughter was a baby for both religious and medical reasons. My world was rocked yesterday when Rockland County Executive Ed Day held a press conference declaring a county-wide State of Emergency because of an ongoing measles outbreak. Starting at midnight last night, anyone under 18 who has not received a measles vaccine will be “barred from public places” for the next 30 days “or until they receive the MMR vaccination.” Parents who don’t comply will face the prospect of a $500 fine or six months in jail.
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“Hats Off to Mississippi!” the State with the Sickest Kids
“Hats off to Mississippi!” That sentence, uttered by a panelist, encapsulates the absurdity of Tuesday’s Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor & Pensions) Committee hearing entitled “Vaccines Save Lives: What Is Driving Preventable Disease Outbreaks?”
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The End of the Autism Epidemic–Finally?
Parental engagement with mainstream medicine is on the brink of a major collapse, and a new book by J.B. Handley, co-founder of Generation Rescue, activist, and autism dad, may just be the tipping point that pushes a majority of parents over the edge, especially when it comes to vaccines, the linchpin of today’s pediatric practice.
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New York City, Home of the Modern Religious Inquisition
New York City. If you don’t live under a rock or in a remote island culture, those three words probably conjure up an image: metropolitan, densely populated, highly diverse, culturally rich, and liberal to a fault – except for Wall Street, of course. Those are the sorts of impressions people tend to have when they think of New York City. And they are all correct, which is why I have made New York my home for the past 29 years.
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Federal Autism Policy: Big News and Action Alert!
Spring of 2014, I sat in a conference room in Washington, D.C. with two other representatives of the newly formed Autism Policy Reform Coalition (APRC) and five highly paid lobbyists from Autism Speaks. We were there in an effort to convince Autism Speaks that they should throw the might and weight of the most “profitable” nonprofit autism organization behind our efforts to make real change in federal autism policy.
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Mandating Meningitis Vaccines Is Bad Economic and Health Policy
As you may or may not be aware, the right of people in general --and parents in particular -- to make informed health care decisions for themselves and their families has been increasingly under attack. Medical kidnapping, the removal of children from their families by Child Protective Services because the parents disagree with a particular doctor's treatment (or lack thereof), is becoming so common as to appear routine. Vaccine legislation has been cropping up all over the country seeking to remove all but the most narrowly defined medical exemptions to the increasingly over-bloated and untested vaccine schedule. Caring, concerned parents who have been asking the questions and doing the investigating…
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Top 10 Lies Told During the Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Hearing
Tuesday, February 10, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee held a Hearing on Vaccine-Preventable Diseases. The hearing was one long propaganda session devoted to getting those who are questioning vaccines to stop doing so. During the course of the hearing, an alarming number of false or misleading statements were made. It’s distressing that such statements were allowed to stand in the United States Senate. So in an effort to correct a whole lot of “misinformation,” I decided to do a Top 10 Lies Told During the Hearing post.
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